"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.---------
Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Grandpa Bell--Soldier at 15
The one thing Martha Izora Costner remembered about him was that he used to like to say that he was Scotch-Irish and Damn Yankee. [Martha Izora Costner was named for Frank's wife, Martha Izora Henderson Bell.]
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